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I spent half of the afternoon trying to get a pic of my mother-in-laws Bengal to share with you, but I failed. He would love me and rub on me and let me pet him, but the second I had my phone handy for pics...he ran away. *sigh* But at least i got to look at your pretty pics!

They do, Kitty. They chase him in there. And they both love HIS porch, even tho theirs is better.

Wendy, remember 21 for a guy isn't real old. Have fun if you like, but he's a decade away from anything serious.Or if you really want him, act like you don't. Ignore, be too busy, make him think you like him ok, but have a lot going on..Trust me.

The less you are available, the more he will want you, and he might grow up in the process.

I love cats. Want to have cats again. But wish to wait until we have a forever home of our own, i.e. a have landed wherever we plan to stay for some years to come. This can't be it, and I'm not sure what trouble we'd have moving back to the States with kittehs.

Anyway, meanwhile, much fun to see pictures of cats.

Ms. T - I'm a bit green, would so much like to see Ms Spektor play live!

Jess, yer too cute. I can picture you standing to the side of the room, smiling sweetly, with a head full of comment!

Long weekend it was, complete with odd weather, but blooming tulips everywhere. Gulls are back, and I hear a lot of chickadee "pee-wee". Co-parent back from a week in Austin. *turning green some more* but *sighing with relief* Long week ahead. G'night, g'morning all! *shambles off*

Every time I see pictures of Magic it catches me by surprise again how eaytiful he is! (The girls are lovely too, but not quite so dramatic)and even if they don't approve of his being out of his room, it looks as though he is allowed to enjoy it and relax a little.

Sunday bengals, very nice, even if I didn't get to admire them until Monday.

I did absolutely nothing yesterday and now feel much better, but I think I shall stay home from work anyway. I'm not well, and maybe I can get a few of the things I was supposed to do this weekend accomplished.

I tried to get picts of the new bees but they won't stay still... beesides we haven't named them all yet so it's hard to tell them apart.

Our rescued shop cat is an elegant black persian who is WAY to grand to be living out back in the pottery. She's also WAY too furry for an Indiana summer. She is currently getting her yearly haircut- she gets smaller by half- so she's not very photogenic. It goes slowly, since she only lets Jay do a little at a time, but he's making her into a LION this year. She will be Queen of the (Hoosier National) Forest!

Leopard on the loose! Again! \o/ I think it's cool that they're getting along as well as they are. That's some big time progress. :)

Na, more sort of a head full of "argh". I didn't really know anyone who turned up-- it was all people from the board. All very friendly, but then they parted-- like the Red Sea-- into two groups, neither of which I could join because they'd turned their backs and begun to talk about their families, and their dying relatives, and their golf swings. I had to spend ten minutes staring at the bulletin board, pretending to be interested in lost cats, tutoring opportunities, and upcoming retirement income workshops. It was awful. This is why I don't go to parties often.

Love the pictures. I'm very behind in comments. We're still in chicago. We were supposed to fly to NC today but ben was puking for 24 hours. Finally stopped this morning. Now he's got a 100degree fever. Not scary-high but he's miserable. We changed our flight to tomorrow. Got a good customer rep at United on the 2nd call (yes, i used lorraine's tips!) and he couldn't get me on a cheaper flight but did give me a voucher for future flights.. Didn't have to do that, good guy.

I love your bengals, Q. Like Marjorie, my favorite is Magic. He looks so much happier than he did when you and Kitty brought him home! But even when he was at his most scared, you could see how special he was.

Wendy- Date/enjoy yourself with both boys. You don't know either one of them well enough to choose now anyway. Plus, as Q says, keeping them on their toes is a good thing for young boys. :)

Robyn- Poor Ben. I hope he feels better soon. Being that sick is no fun. For mommy either. ((hugs))

Kia ora Sally - I'm feeling much better now thank you. :) I even managed to restrict any coughing to the applause between songs last night.

Yeah, I had heard of cubbies, but not until later. It could be a regional thing - we can't even agree on terminology between the two main islands sometimes, e.g. holiday homes (not the flash mansion-y variety - the more basic kind) are called baches in the North Island and cribs in the South Island. And this was pre-MTV!

I had a very strange dream this morning... I was visiting Q for a major holiday and she loaned me the soundtrack for a French horror movie. I had to go buy Christmas presents (so it must have been Christmas, even though it was green outside), and then we were all going over to Boss's house to play with the puppies, except he wasn't there because he had to go pick up his girlfriend from the airport.

We on the other hand have snow. Wet snow, but snow. And wind. A friend is blaming me for the snow, because I, fool that I am, cleaned all the sleds and snow shovels on Sunday, and had actually put the monsters' snow pants away.

Q, I can not make it through the day without advil, vicodin, and muscle relaxers...you'd be so loopy on my daily cocktails. *snicker* Probably make the chasing the cat in the lacy black nighty thing look tame.

Just got home from dinner out with Mum. Feels like a long evening to me. I'm afraid getting separate apartments has not made me more patient when we're together. I feel like such a bad daughter.

Not much going on here. I'm about ready to send out invitations to a house concert by Marian Call for Memorial Day weekend (Friday night). If you're a fiend I know is in the area, you're probably already on my list and will hear from me soon. Add this to the list of things I'd never imagine myself doing pre-Fiendom.

Otherwise, it's same old, same old. Feeling stressed out and inadequate at work. Mostly vegetating at home. At least this concert will get me to clean house.

Not a lot going on here either, just finishing up my (late) lunch break and trying to decide if I'll knit and watch telly, or read for a bit then knit* and watch telly tonight. Ooh, what a mad, heady, (anti)social whirl!

*I'm making contributions for the It's a Tree! outdoor knit project, and I think all the leaves and flowers need to be in next week. Eep!

Siri, Linda tweets more than I do. I do play games on Twitter, though. And 1 Book 1 Twitter starts in a few minutes. It's a global book club with "American Gods" as the first book.

Besides, I may be joining Facebook. :/

Your garbage house/cubbie looks nice and neat, Ms. Fabulous. Much better than our rusted cart that we bought at a garage sale 11 years ago. On the other hand, we don't live in town and our garbage cans can only be seen when we wheel them to the street. I almost said curb, but we don't have one.

Siri hasn't forgotten what Jon Stewart said about Twitter, and for that she is wise. Nobody is that interesting on Twitter. Though I have to admit I've warmed to the idea of a place where no one has an obligation to be interesting.

I have been watching "Do You Know Who You Are?", which if you haven't seen, each episode follows a celebrity as they trace back their genealogy. I thought it was going to be kinda blah, but I liked some of the actors so I decided to give it a try. It has been a LOT more interesting than I expected. In the show, they are using census records and preserved letters and all sorts of things to find out information about people. While it might seem silly now, I think having all of those types of records could actually be quite informative!

OT: Sometimes I think I am one of ten people in the entire world that does not like Family Guy.

Possible, Sally. But you have to remember that they're archiving many, many hundreds of thousands of tweets, including spam. The likelihood that anyone might go to the Library of Congress one day and search specifically for your tweets, or mine, or any other punter's, is very small, and certainly no greater than the likelihood they'd request the information from Twitter directly. Boss has more to fear from the historians than we do. :) And frankly I think my 140-word mundanities are safer in the hands of librarians than Twitter's corporate suits.

I think it will be neat that researchers could use it to trace the spread of information (and misinformation) regarding current events. There have been several things I read about on twitter before they were picked up by the major media.

Dan posted this on facebook for me and I love it so much I want to share it with all of you. We all face fear every day, in many ways. Mine is a fear of success. I hope this helps any of you standing up to your fears too.

I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.Only I will remain.--Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Dune"

I shall say no more other than I have been growing increasingly nauseous over it, and I wish they'd had a morning appointment available, because if they had it'd be over with by now. Anyway.

The LoC Twitter thing is exciting because they're able to archive humanity in a way they never have done before. Future archaeologists will be able to sift through tweets the way they currently sift though old Roman garbage dumps. They will learn how we lived day-to-day, and what we thought about, and-- perversely-- they will find it interesting.

One Sock Short, Marian Call is coming to Toronto as well - right at the same as we are holding our annual lovefest for Joss Whedon- also known as the Can't Stop The Serenity Charity Screening. ;-)I'm hoping her concert here is right after that so that I can go.

For the first time ever I was called old by another adult last night! I'm still alternating between chuckling and slighty horrified...I mean I'm only 20nyears older than the person (in his late 20's) who said it!. The person in question is a friend of a friend who came over for a visit. He was really excited because he'd met an oldie who was computer/techno savvy...and kept saying he wished his mum was as good at the computer as me. WTF?

I know 48 isn't exactly young, but I don't consider myself "old" either! Its a bit of a shock to the system.

OOhh! Mike Resnick left a comment on my blog. *grin* Now I wish I'd said something more insightful...

I awoke this morning to a torrential downpour. Very pleasant to sprawl in bed with the dog and the cat and the boy and listen to the rain. I only worried a little about the gutter I haven't fixed yet (Hi Jess!), and it was sunny by the time I walked to work.

I stopped at the roastery on the way: today is a good coffee day. Quality declines progressively until I'm out. I don't buy much coffee at a time.

I seem to be a little bit behind too, the last couple of weeks have gone by in a whirl of fun in Ireland, then having a poorly b/f, taking b/f to a&e, coming down with aforesaid poorliness myself (& thus realising a&e was slight overreaction on dr's part!), piles of work...oh and voting - that brings me up to today!! Hope all is good in fiendly universe :o)

Count me in as a non Family Guy fan too. My brother loves it, but I don't find it that funny. Watching him crease up in hysterics IS funny though :o)

ery so often i find family guy mildly amusing, do not like any of the family guy spin offs. in general i find hte humor, like south park, too mean spiritied and they take a joke and make it play too long.

as for funny shows, i am totally smitten with Community. it's a well written comedy that is also ridiculous. full disclosure, i am a joel mchale fangirl.

It was about 90 yesterday and in the 80s today. I am too sleepy to make any sort of sense, so I think I should turn in. Shoveling shit for two hours after a morning of cleaning house is hard work. It was so hard I had to go right out after washing off the manure and get a mani-pedi. Then I really wore myself out by running errands and then taking R to Target. clearly I was not making good decisions at that point. She really did need a bike, though. And five DVDs. Okay, three. Two were for me.

Morning, Lorraine! We have spring here... at least today. We've been ping-ponging between late winter (40s at night), Summer (70s at night) and Spring. I like landing on the spring days, but the weather gods haven't asked my opinion. Today is breezy, with intermittant sun and clouds. And our driveway is completely carpeted with helicopter seeds from our giant silver maple. Its obviously had a very sexy spring.

We had a big giant thunderstorm last night which knocked out the power for about four hours. It was very, very dark, and I ended up using my copy of American Gods as a flashlight (as there is currently an LED reading-light stuck on it). So add that to your Emergency Survival Kit! American Gods is reflective in more ways than one. Provided you use a reading-light.

Come to think of it, if you stuck your iPod in it, it could be a radio, too. Next print run, Q, tell them: iPod pocket on the cover.

I am a hurting unit here, but with my gardening and check-writing skills, and the day of work from the Spousal Unit the yard looks amazingly good. I pulled approximately 300,000 weeds. Give or take. Aaargh. Aleve is on the dinner menu.

Then, my genius bff Mary Lou called and asked if we wanted to join them at the barbecue place for dinner. Heck, yeah! Brisket (and NO DINNER DISHES) here we come.

i was at trainday! amtrack sponsored some activities at union station where we got to walk through the different types of cars, and also got t walk on some of the privately owned cars. wow, when i become independently wealthy, i'm so getting one of these train cars they are amazing. /traingeek

Pete is my beloved...mind you, I'm not sure that it snowing anywhere other than here would worry him. Unless it was where a F1 race was due to run. Then he'd be mightily peeved at missing loud cars going very fast in sort of circles.

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